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In a 2026 interview study, people of color living with both PTSD and a substance use disorder described racism and sexism as part of how both conditions began.1 Women and men told different …
Read articleDrug use and internet fraud often fed each other, according to 22 young adults in addiction treatment in southwestern Nigeria who took part in focus groups for a 2026 study. They also descri…
Read articleAbout 1 in 7 adults in Spain who use illicit drugs reported using them to enhance sex in the past year, according to a 2026 analysis of a large web survey. Far fewer, about 3%, reported goin…
Read articleA 2026 umbrella review of 16 systematic reviews covering 371 trials found strong medication evidence for tobacco and opioid use disorders, modest benefits for alcohol use disorder, and no ap…
Read articleA 2026 qualitative case study of 8 top-performing HEALing Communities Study communities linked opioid-response implementation success to representative coalition membership, shared goals, da…
Read articleA 2026 emergency department claims analysis estimated 3.87 million United States ED visits in 2021 where take-home naloxone could have been clinically relevant, compared with 226,453 ED-trea…
Read articleA 53-study resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) meta-analysis found substance use disorder (SUD) linked to altered connectivity across prefrontal, striatal, thalamic, c…
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